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Sen. Elizabeth Warren, a vocal Wall Street critic, reinforced her support for Janet Yellen to lead the Federal Reserve Board during a TV interview on Monday.

Warren, D-Mass., and a member of the Senate Banking Committee, was a critic of Lawrence Summers to replace Ben Bernanke as chairman of the Fed.

Summers, a former Treasury secretary, withdrew from consideration on Sunday, telling President Obama in a letter that he faced an "acrimonious" confirmation process if he were to be Obama's nominee. Yellen, vice chair of the Fed, is now considered the leading candidate to replace Bernanke, who is expected to step down in January.

"Janet Yellen will, I hope, make a terrific Federal Reserve chair and I hope she is nominated," Warren said Monday on MSNBC's Morning Joe program. "She has great experience and great judgment."

Warren signed a letter in July backing Yellen, an economist and former president of the Federal Reserve Bank in San Francisco, as Bernanke's replacement. Three Democrats on the Senate Banking Committee — Oregon's Jeff Merkley, Montana's Jon Tester and Ohio's Sherrod Brown — had signaled they would vote against Summers if his nomination went to the full Senate.

Warren and Summers also have a history outside of Washington, at Harvard University. She was a Harvard Law School professor when Summers resigned as the university's president in 2006, after making comments that suggested fewer women pursued careers in math and science because of their gender.

Summers and Warren also clashed when she led the federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, a panel that was created as part of the Dodd-Frank banking law that put new limits on Wall Street.

"Larry was not my first choice," Warren said on MSNBC. "He's a brilliant economist who has made many contributions to the field of economics. ... I think we have different world views about the economy and regulation."